I have a 1.25GHz 15" Aluminium PowerBook G4 with 2GBs of RAM and find I use all the RAM available. Safari really eats up RAM particularly when like me you leave it open all the time and have 30+ windows and tabs open. OS X loves RAM and the more you can afford the less you'll be paging out to disk which means the faster you'll be running.
Although I do every now and then run Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio pro and the like, most of the time I am just running Safari, Word, Entourage, iTunes, Apple Remote Desktop, Quicksilver, Adium, Preview, Quicktime (being what I have open as I write this). Currently Activity Monitor tells me the following: Wired: 217MB Active: 1.17GB Inactive: 604MB Used: 1.97GB Free: 33MB VM size: 11.7GB If you want to run Virtual PC as well, I would highly recommend as much RAM as you can possibly afford. -Mart > From: Adam Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:38:17 +0800 > To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]> > Subject: How much RAM? The eternal question > > Hey all, > > I just picked up this 15" 1.25ghz Powerbook with 512MB of RAM. It's > just not enough. > > So what do I do? I've got 2x256MB sticks right now. I could buy a 512 > and go to 768, buy 2x512 to go to 1024 or buy a single 1gb chip and > go to 1256mb. > > Has anyone gone from 768 to higher? Did anyone note any need for > this? I'm just your normal Camino, Mail, iTunes, iView Media Pro, > Adium, Quicksilver running kinda guy :) > > Adam > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro > >
